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Grade 12Physical Chemistry

Metal usually do not occur in nature as nitrate why

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of abhishek
9 Years ago
Nitrates of all Metal are soluble in water therefore if metal nitrate were present in the crust of the earth these would be slowly and gradually watched by rain and water into the sea it is because of this reason that metal muesli do not occur in nature as nitrates
Profile image of Athuman Juma Buyogela
8 Years ago
Metal usually do not occur in nature as nitrate Because any nitrates is a stron oxidizing agent and hence not stable